The process of moving to England

Hiya, I'm new to this whole blogging thing, but I thought I would start here. In 2014 I met my now husband,Anthony by an act of fate. Long story short, we met on vacation and the rests history. I'll share that story later. Fast forward to NYE 2015 and that lovely British man was proposing to me under fireworks on the River Thames in London. So the moving process slowly begins. I was in America he was back in England. Let me just explain....we were clueless on my visa process. We didn't even know where to start. In fact, before I even met Anthony I only knew vaguely what a visa was ( besides the credit card 😜 Lol ).

After much research, stress, more research and some more stress we decided to hire an immigration lawyer. Going back, I would skip this step.. But it was a life lesson right?  Before we started this process I had no idea how hard it was to move to the UK. The visa we were applying for is a proposed marriage visa aka a fiancé visa. To apply, it's a lengthy online application where the British home office asks you questions about you and your partner from A-Z. We also had to prove my sponsor (Anthony) had a minimum income of £18,600. The amount goes up for every dependent you apply with. Thankfully, Anthony more than cleared this amount... But during the process he had switched jobs. So we had to prove he was going to be employed with the new employer for the foreseeable future. We also had to provide evidence of our relationship, phone records, Skype records, emails, photos, etc. Then we had to have proof that we intended to marry, had a place (non council) to live, among other random things. I had to get my biometrics (fingerprints and photo) taken and sent over the UK.  Once all evidence was gathered and biometrics taken I was able to send the application off.  We chose not to do the priority service, due to costs and the stats said most Americans know within us a month or month and a half.  Then the waiting began...  to be continued.